Sylvia Movie Review & Film Summary (2003) | Roger Ebert Tweet 'Fame will come. Fame especially for you. Fame cannot be avoided. And when it comes You will have paid for it with your happiness, Your husband and your life.' So (perhaps) the spirit of the Ouija board whispered to Sylvia Plath one evening when she and Ted Hughes were spelling out their futures and she suddenly refused to continue. Hughes uses the speculation to close his poem "Ouija" in Birthday Letters, the book of poetry he wrote about his relationship with Plath. It was started after her suicide in 1963 and published after his death in 1998. It broke his silence about Sylvia, which persisted during years when the Plath industry all but condemned him of murder. Advertisement But if there was ever a woman who seemed headed for suicide with or without this husband or any other, that woman must have been Plath, and there is a scene in "Sylvia" where her mother warns Hughes of that, not quite in so many words.

"The woman is perfected," Plath wrote in a poem named "Edge." "Her dead body wears the smile of accomplishment..." Of course it is foolhardy to snatch words from a poem and apply them to a life as if they make a neat fit, but "Edge" was her last poem, written on Feb. 5, 1963, and six days later she left out bread and milk for her children, sealed their room to protect them and put her head in the gas oven. Christine Jeffs' "Sylvia" is the story of the short life of Plath (1932-1963), an American who came as a student to Cambridge, met the young poet Ted Hughes at a party, was kissed by him before the evening had ended, and famously bit his cheek, drawing blood. It was not merely love at first sight, but passion, and the passion continued as they moved back to Massachusetts, where she was from, and where he taught. Then back to England, and to a lonely cottage in the country, and to the birth of their children, and to her (correct) suspicion that he was having an affair, and to their separation, and to Feb.

11, 1963. He was famous before she was, but the posthumous publication of Ariel, her final book of poems, brought greater fame to her. In the simplistic accounting which governs such matters, her death was blamed on his adultery, and in the 35 years left to him, he lived with that blame. Hughes became Britain's poet laureate. He married the woman he was having the affair with (she died a suicide, too). He burned one of Plath's journals -- he didn't want the children to see it, he said -- and was blamed for covering up an indictment of himself. He edited her poetry. He saw her novel The Bell Jar to press, and kept his silence. Advertisement Birthday Letters is all he had to write about her. When you read the book you can feel his love, frustration, guilt, anger, sense of futility. When you read her poetry, you experience the clear, immediate voice of a great poet more fascinated by death than life. "Somebody's done for," she wrote in the last line of "Death & Co." (Nov.

14, 1962), and although that line follows bitter lines that are presumably about Hughes, there is no sense that he's done for. It's her. A movie about their lives was probably inevitable. It will be bracketed with " Iris ," the 2001 film about the British novelist Iris Murdoch, who died of Alzheimer's. I deplored the way that movie made so much of Iris the wild young thing and Iris the tragic Alzheimer's victim, and left out the middle Iris who was a great novelist -- whose work made her life worth filming in the first place. I am not so bothered by the way "Sylvia" focuses on the poet's neurosis, because her life and her work were so entwined. Dying/Is an art, like everything else/I do it exceptionally well. ... she wrote. Advertisement The film stars Gwyneth Paltrow as Sylvia and Daniel Craig as Ted. They are well cast, not merely because they look something like the originals but because they sound like workers who live with words and value them; there's a scene where they hurl quotations at each other, and it sounds like they know what they're doing.

Paltrow's great feat is to underplay her character's death wish. There was madness in Sylvia Plath, but of a sad, interior sort, and one of the film's accomplishments is to show in a subtle way how it was so difficult for Hughes to live with her. The movie doesn't pump up the volume. Yes, she does extreme things, like burning his papers and wrecking his office, but he does extreme things, too. Adultery is an extreme thing. In this consider the scene where Hughes meets Mrs. Plath for the first time. Played by Blythe Danner (Paltrow's mother), Aurelia tells her daughter's lover that Sylvia had tried to kill herself and was a person who was capable of getting it right one of these times. It is difficult to portray a writer's life. "Sylvia" handles that by incorporating a good deal of actual poetry into the movie, read by or to the characters, or in voice-over. It also captures the time of their lives; they were young in the 1950s, and that was another world.

England gloomed through postwar poverty, there were shortages of everything, red wine and candles made you a bohemian, poets were still considered extremely important, and Freud was being ported wholesale into literature; poets took their neuroses as their subjects. Literary criticism was taken seriously, because it was written in English that could be understood and had not yet imploded into academic puzzle-making. To be good in that time was to be very good, and Plath and Hughes both were first-rate. There are two questions the movie dodges. We don't know the precise nature of Hughes' cheating, and we don't understand how Plath felt about the children she was leaving behind -- why she thought it was acceptable to leave them. The second question has no answer. The answer to the first is supplied by Hughes' critics, who accuse him of womanizing, but the film dilutes that with the suggestion that he simply could not stay in the same house any longer with Sylvia. Advertisement Imagine a hypothetical moviegoer who has not heard of Plath or Hughes or read any of their poetry. That would include almost everyone at the multiplex. Is there anything in "Sylvia" for them?

Yes, in a way: A glimpse of literary lives at a time when they were more central than they are now, a touching performance by Paltrow, and a portrait of a depressive. But for those who have read the poets and are curious about their lives, "Sylvia" provides illustrations for the biographies we carry in our minds. We see the milieu, the striving, the poverty, the passion, and we hear the poetry, and in the way Paltrow's performance allows Sylvia to grow subtly distant from her daily life, we sense the approach of the end. There is not even the feeling that we are intruding, because the poems of these two poets violated their privacy in a manner both thorough and brutal. Popular Blog Posts Blythe Danner (Actress) - Pics, Videos, Dating, & News Blythe Danner Female Born Feb 3, 1943 Blythe Katherine Danner is an American actress. She is the mother of actress Gwyneth Paltrow and director Jake Paltrow. related links News + Updates Browse recent news and stories about Blythe Danner.

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In \"Standard Deviation,\" Stan sees has one way to get out of a suicide... ABC News - Feb 03, 2016 'The stars of the new \"Madoff\" mini-series sit down with the ladies of the View.' Learn about the memorable moments in the evolution of Blythe Danner. CHILDHOOD 1943 Birth Born on February 3, 1943. TEENAGE 1960 17 Years Old Danner graduated from George School, a Quaker high school located near Newtown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania in 1960. … Read More She began her Friends School experience in Kindergarten at Media-Providence Friends School, then known as Media Friends in Media, Pennsylvania. Read Less TWENTIES 1967 24 Years Old A graduate of Bard College, Danner's first roles included the 1967 musical Mata Hari (closed out of town), and the 1968 off-Broadway production, Summertree. … Read More Her early Broadway appearances included roles in Cyrano de Bergerac (1968) and The Miser (1969).

She won a Best Supporting Actress Tony playing a free-spirited divorcee in Butterflies Are Free (1969). Read Less 1972 29 Years Old In 1972, Danner portrayed Martha Jefferson opposite Ken Howard's Thomas Jefferson in the movie version of 1776. … Read More That same year, she played a wife whose husband has been unfaithful opposite Peter Falk and John Cassavetes in the Columbo episode "Etude in Black".<br /><br /> Her earliest starring film role was opposite Alan Alda in To Kill a Clown (1972). Danner appeared in the episode of M*A*S*H entitled "The More I See You", playing the love interest of Alda's character Hawkeye Pierce. She played lawyer Amanda Bonner in television's Adam's Rib, also opposite Ken Howard as Adam Bonner. She played Zelda Fitzgerald in F. Scott Fitzgerald and 'The Last of the Belles' (1974). She was the eponymous heroine in the film Lovin' Molly (1974) (directed by Sidney Lumet).

She appeared in Futureworld, playing Tracy Ballard with co-star Peter Fonda (1976). Read Less THIRTIES 1982 39 Years Old In the 1982 TV movie Inside the Third Reich, she played the wife of Albert Speer. … Read More In the film version of Neil Simon's semiautobiographical play Brighton Beach Memoirs (1986), she portrayed a middle-aged Jewish mother. She has appeared in two films based on the novels of Pat Conroy, The Great Santini (1979) and The Prince of Tides (1991), as well as two television movies adapted from books by Anne Tyler, Saint Maybe and Back When We Were Grownups, both for the Hallmark Hall of Fame. Read Less FIFTIES 2000 57 Years Old Danner appeared opposite Robert De Niro in the 2000 comedy hit Meet the Parents, and its sequels, Meet the Fockers (2004) and Little Fockers (2010).

2001 58 Years Old From 2001 to 2006, she regularly appeared on Will & Grace as Will Truman's mother Marilyn. 2002 59 Years Old Danner is the widow of producer/director Bruce Paltrow, who died from complications of pneumonia while battling oral cancer in 2002, and the mother of actress Gwyneth Paltrow and director Jake Paltrow. … Read More Danner first co-starred with her daughter in 1992 in the TV movie Cruel Doubt and then again in the 2003 film Sylvia playing Aurelia Plath, mother to Gwyneth Paltrow's title role as Sylvia Plath.<br /><br /> Regarding meditation practice, Danner said: "I have found transcendental meditation very helpful and comforting. It centers me."<br /><br /> Primetime Emmy Awards <br /><br /> Tony Awards <br /><br /> Other Awards Read Less LATE ADULTHOOD 2004 61 Years Old From 2004 to 2006, she starred in the TV series Huff.

2005 62 Years Old In 2005, she was nominated for three Emmy Awards: for her work on Will & Grace, Huff, and Back When We Were Grownups. … Read More Emmy host Ellen DeGeneres poked fun at Danner during the awards ceremony, saying that Danner should not be nervous because she was almost certain to win at least one Emmy, which she did, for Huff. Read Less Blythe Danner Profile @ ClickTheCity Movies Blythe Katherine Danner (born February 3, 1943) is an American actress. She is the mother of actress Gwyneth Paltrow and director Jake Paltrow. --- Danner was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Katharine (née Kile) and Harry Earl Danner, a bank executive. She has a brother, opera singer/actor Harry Danner, a sister, performer-turned-director Dorothy (Dottie) Danner, and a half-brother, violin maker William Moennig. Danner is of part Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry, and one of her great-grandmothers was born in Barbados (a White Barbadian).

A graduate of Bard College, Danner's first roles included the 1967 musical Mata Hari (closed out of town), and the 1968 off-Broadway production, Summertree. Her early Broadway appearances included roles in Cyrano de Bergerac (1968) and The Miser (1969). She won a Best Supporting Actress Tony playing a free-spirited divorcee in Butterflies Are Free (1969). In 1972, Danner portrayed Martha Jefferson opposite Ken Howard's Thomas Jefferson in the movie version of 1776. Also that same year, she played a cuckolded wife opposite Peter Falk and John Cassavetes in the Columbo episode "Etude in Black". Her earliest starring film role was opposite Alan Alda in To Kill a Clown (1972). Danner appeared in the episode of M*A*S*H entitled "The More I See You", playing the love interest of Alda's character Hawkeye. She was lawyer Amanda Bonner in television's "Adam's Rib," also opposite Ken Howard as Adam Bonner. She played the role of Zelda Fitzgerald in The Last of the Belles (1974).

--- Danner is the widow of producer/director Bruce Paltrow, who died from complications of pneumonia while battling oral cancer in 2002, and the mother of actress Gwyneth Paltrow and director Jake Paltrow. Danner first co-starred with her daughter in 1992 in the TV movie Cruel Doubt and then again in the 2003 film Sylvia playing Aurelia Plath, mother to Gwyneth Paltrow's title role as Sylvia Plath. Mother's Day: 6 Mother-Daughter Duos Who Have Appeared in Films Together (Video) | Hollywood Reporter 6 Mother-Daughter Duos Who Have Appeared in Films Together (Video) 7:00 AM PDT 5/9/2015 by THR Staff AP Images/Invision Meryl Streep and Mamie Gummer Meryl Streep, Susan Sarandon and Diane Ladd are among the actresses who have starred alongside their famous offspring. From Laura Dern to Gwyneth Paltrow, a number of actresses have followed in the footsteps of their famous mothers to Hollywood.

In honor of Mother's Day, here's a look at six real-life mothers and daughters who have appeared on the big screen together. 1. Meryl Streep and Mamie Gummer Mamie Gummer was just 3 years old when she made her film debut playing the role of Streep's on-screen daughter in 1986's Heartburn. Nearly three decades later, the pair will appear as mother and daughter again in the upcoming music drama Ricki and the Flash , slated for a June 2015 release. 2. Angelina Jolie and Vivienne Marcheline Jolie-Pitt Jolie's daughter Vivienne, one of six kids the actress shares with husband Brad Pitt, appeared as young Princess Aurora in Disney's Maleficent. Jolie once noted that it took a family effort to get the 4-year-old to follow directions on her first day on set. Describing a scene in which Vivienne had to be filmed chasing butterflies in a field, Jolie told E! News , "Brad and I, and her brothers and sisters, were all there, and I had to get the pole with the blue stick on the end that was the butterfly and I had to kind of dance in front of her." 3.

Diane Ladd and Laura Dern Ladd and daughter Laura Dern have appeared in a total of nine films together, including Wild at Heart, Citizen Ruth and Daddy and Them (though a few of Dern's minor cameos in her mother's earlier films were uncredited). Both mother and daughter earned Oscar nominations for best actress (Dern) and best supporting actress (Ladd) for their performance in 1991's Rambling Rose. 4. Susan Sarandon and Eva Amurri Martino Sarandon and Amurri Martino have starred alongside each other in seven films, ranging from 1992's Bob Roberts to 2001's The Banger Sisters, in which Amurri Martino played the role of Sarandon's on-screen daughter. In both 1995's Dead Man Walking and 2012's That's My Boy, Sarandon appeared as the older version of her daughter's film character. 5. Blythe Danner and Gwyneth Paltrow Danner and Paltrow had appeared in a TV movie together, 1992's Cruel Doubt, before starring in their first feature film.

In the 2003 biopic Sylvia, Paltrow played the lead role of Sylvia Plath, while Danner played the role of her mother, Aurelia Plath. 6. Leslie Mann and Maude and Iris Apatow Mann's real-life daughters Maude and Iris Apatow have played the on-screen daughters of Mann's characters in 2007's Knocked Up, 2009's Funny People and 2012's This Is 40 -- all of which were directed by husband/father Judd Apatow. Blythe and Gwyneth – Like Mother Like Daughter | Golden Globes Blythe and Gwyneth – Like Mother Like Daughter by Silvia Bizio November 27, 2015 Exclusives getty images Dynasties and acting families are nothing new in Hollywood. Blythe Danner and Gwyneth Paltrow embody a particularly successful example – as well as an ardent mutual admiration society. The HFPA’s Silvia Bizio reports.

It's always lovely to see a mother and a daughter, both in their adult age, gleaming in each other’s company, clearly adoring and respecting each other, and laughing together. But if mother and daughter are Blythe Danner and Gwyneth Paltrow, well, then it’s a real treat. We recently had the privilege of spending some time with the two great actresses at Craig’s restaurant in West Hollywood during a lunch hosted by Gwyneth Paltrow in honor of her mother, to celebrate the independent drama I'll See You in My Dreams, the first leading role for Danner after a decades-long acclaimed career in theater (her staple), TV and film. In this low budget movie written and directed by young Brett Haley, Danner plays a widow, who after many years alone with her dog and her friends finally decides to give in to a sexual attraction with a beautiful man her age (Sam Elliott): it’s a fierce, tenacious, fun, and showy performance by Danner.

During the lunch, attended by Hollywood notables like Colleen Camp, Brenda Vaccaro, Mimi Rogers, Tom Arnold, and Sally Kirkland, daughter Paltrow gave a speech celebrating her mother’s accomplishments, both as an actress and as a mother, and now also as a grandmother. "Mom is my hero, she's the greatest," Gwyneth said with sincere love. "And I'm so enthused that at her age, today, she's finally given the opportunity to carry a whole movie on her strong shoulders. In film she was always a supporting character, albeit a great one, and she did tens of movies. On stage, on the other hand, she's been the protagonist, since I (remember when) I was the little girl backstage watching this amazing ever-transforming woman playing fantastic roles. Then she would take a bow, come in the dressing room, and immediately switch to the role I think she likes the most: being a mom." Blythe Danner, beautiful, elegant and classy at 72, slender and svelte, couldn't say much after Gwyneth's moving speech; she gently blushed and chatted privately with some of us.

"Gwyneth is such a beautiful person, other than a good actress and businesswoman, and now also a cook-book writer!" Danner was referring to her daughter’s venture in the publishing world (her third cook book is about to be published while her website, goop.com, is having a great success.) "It's such a joy nowadays being a grandmother: I have two sets of grandchildren, two from my son Jake in the East Coast, and two from Gwyneth here on the West Coast: so I shuttle back and forth between them, and I'm fortunate enough to be able to put some work in the middle.” The ever-modest Danner also talked about her role in I'll See You in My Dreams: "It's my first lead character in a movie, I know, and that's why I almost turned it down. My agent had some convincing to do with me. ‘Not a good idea to pass this one up’, he said. He was right, it has been a wonderful experience.” "We shot the film for less than a million dollars, can you believe it? We shot in just 18 days, and we were lucky to have a little house in Studio City where we shot the majority of it.

The young man who wrote and directed it, 29 years old, showed an amazing sensibility and understanding for older people and their life." "I can identify with this role," she continues. "The loss of a husband, the love for animals and dogs, there's quite a bit of me in it. I like her, her way of speaking, almost masculine, the tenacity, she has spunk and I like it. It's a throwback to the kind of actresses in the 40s, like Barbara Stanwyck. As I get older I think I'm getting a little of bit of that tenacity. The mother and daughter actresses have worked together, twice. In 1992 in the TV movie Cruel Doubt and in 2003 in Sylvia, in which Danner played Aurelia Plath, mother to Gwyneth’s title role as poet Sylvia Plath. "I wish that film would have done better," Danner says, "because Gwyneth did an extraordinary job. But on stage we did several things together in the past.

As parents we didn't push the kids towards acting at all: but whenever we needed a little girl or boy young Gwyneth was always the first on line: “I want to do it!” she was saying. It was fun for her, and became her destiny. The kids were drawn to what we parents did. We tried to discourage them, but failed. But it's a natural attraction. And Gwyneth is so talented." And in one realm at least, the daughter has apparently surpassed the mother: Danner says she can't cook as well as Gwyneth, nor can she follow her recipes. "Gwyneth is talented also in the kitchen, and her cooking is health oriented, the books very nicely done, and she's a great businesswoman, she can do everything!" Has Hollywood changed throughout the years? We ask her. "I was never really in the hub of it, a film here and there, but I've always done more theatre," she says. "And yet from my perspective it seems better today for women, there are more roles, better and more three-dimensional. Now there are all these new series on these new venues, cable, streaming and so on, great stories, they feel like movies.

Years ago we were paralyzed when reality shows seemed to take over, but now look at all the opportunities for actors. It's a great time for actors, including me!" Silvia Bizio Gwyneth Paltrow Blythe Danner Relationship Mothers Day » Celebrity Kids Mothers » Gwyneth Paltrow - Blythe Danner Gwyneth Paltrow - Blythe Danner Blythe Danner was born on 3 February 1943 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Blythe had started her career in the Boston theater companies. She won the Theater World Award for her performance in Moliere's The Miser. After that she won the Tony Award for her acting in Butterflies Are Free. She made her film premiere with Dr. Cook's Garden in 1971. She often appeared on Will & Grace as Will Truman's mother Marilynfrom 2001 to 2006. From 2004 to 2006, she appeared in a TV series called Huff.

She earned three Emmy Award nominations from 2001 to 2006 for her work on Will &'Grace', 'Huff' and 'Back When We Were Grownups' which she eventually won for Huff. In July 2006, Blythe won a second consecutive Emmy award for Huff. For 25 years, she has been a regular performer at the Williamstown Summer Theater Festival, where Blythe also serves on the Board of Directors. Danner received an inaugural Katharine Hepburn Medal, alongside fellow honoree Lauren Bacall in 2006by Bryn Mawr College's Katharine Houghton Hepburn Center, which recognizes "women whose lives, work and contributions embody the intelligence, drive and independence of the four-time-Oscar-winning actress,"She is also very famous for being the wife of the noted director Bruce Paltrow.

She is also known for her famous acting children Gwyneth Paltrow and Jake Paltrow.Danner first co-starred with her daughter in 1992 in the TV movie Cruel Doubt and then again in the 2003 film Sylvia playing Aurelia Plath, mother to Gwyneth Paltrow's title role as Sylvia Plath. Born on the 27th of September, 1972 in Los Angeles, California,Gwyneth Paltrow is an American actress and singer.She is the daughter of the well-known film director Bruce Paltrow and the famous award winning actress Blythe Danner. After spending several summers watching her mother perform at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in Massachusetts, Paltrow made her professional stage debut there in 1990. She made a film debut with Shout (1991), starring John Travolta, and was also cast by Steven Spielberg for his film Hook (1991), as the young Wendy Darling. She then played some minor roles in Malice (1993) and Flesh and Bone (1993).

She played a supporting role in Seven (1995) alongside Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman and earned a Satellite Award nomination. In 1996, she played the title character in Emma,which was very highly acclaimed. However her career reached its culmination whenshe was awarded the Academy Award for her performance in Shakespeare in Love (1998). Since the Oscar for Shakespeare in Love, Paltrow's film careerwent into a slump. She said that she was unequipped for the pressures, which lead her to several bad movie choices. During this time, Paltrow rarely appeared in films, having taken a career hiatus to raise her family. In an interview, she said to have divided her career into movies for love and films for money. Quite evidently, where her films like 'The Royal Tenenbaums', 'Proof and Sylvia' fall into the first category the others like 'View from the Top' and 'Shallow Hal' fall into the latter. Paltrow met Chris Martin of the British rock group Coldplay In October 2002, few weeks after the death of her father, Bruce Paltrow.

They married on December 5, 2003 in a ceremony at a hotel in Southern California. She had her first child, a girl on 14 May 2004, whom she named Apple Blythe Alison Martin.Her second child, a boy named Moses Bruce Anthony Martin, was born on 8 April 2006. Blythe and Gwyneth make a stunning mother-daughter pair. 11 Real-Life Mother-Daughter Co-Stars 11 Real-Life Mother-Daughter Co-Stars Tweet Aug 4, 2015 Like mother, like daughter. Meryl Streep and her daughter Mamie Gummer are teaming up on screen to play – what else? – mother and daughter in the Diablo Cody-written dramedy Ricki and the Flash (out Friday, August 7). Their resemblance is so strong that they once even played the same person. In the 2007 movie Evening, Mamie played the younger version of Meryl’s character. Their Ricki and the Flash roles got us thinking about other mother-daughter duos that have shared the screen together. Here are some of our favorites! 1.

Angelina Jolie and Vivienne Jolie-Pitt in Maleficent Vivienne was completely adorable as a young Aurora in Maleficent. We’re impressed she was brave enough to face her mom in that scary costume. 2. Leslie Mann and Maude and Iris Apatow in This is 40 Maude and Iris, Leslie’s kids with director Judd Apatow, also appeared in The 40-Year-Old Virgin. The family that makes movies together, stays together. 3. Blythe Danner and Gwyneth Paltrow in Sylvia Their resemblance is striking, so it was a no-brainer that Blythe would play Aurelia Plath, Sylvia Plath’s mother, in 2003’s Sylvia. It was the first movie in which Blythe and Gwyneth played mother and daughter. 4. Susan Sarandon and Eva Amurri Martino in The Banger Sisters Fandango MovieClips/makeagif.com It was awesome when Susan and Eva shared the screen in The Banger Sisters – but it would have been even better if Kate Hudson had joined her mom Goldie Hawn in the movie, as well.

Eva also played the younger version of Susan’s character in the Lifetime mini-series The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe. 5. Laurie Simmons and Lena Dunham in Tiny Furniture IFC Films/octopussoir-.tumblr.com It was a film loosely based on her life, so Lena cast her real mom as her on-screen mom. She also cast her real sister as her on-screen sister and her real best friend (Jemima Kirke) as her on-screen best friend. It pays to be the director. 6. Natasha Richardson and Vanessa Redgrave in Evening Meryl and Mamie weren’t the only real-life mother-daughter duo to appear in Evening. The late Natasha Richardson and her mom Vanessa Redgrave did it, too. 7. Demi Moore and Rumer Willis in Striptease They played mother and daughter in 1996’s Striptease, but now the two could probably play sisters! 8. Liza Minnelli and Judy Garland in The Good Old Summertime Liza’s first ever screen appearance was in this 1949 musical playing the daughter of her real-life mom, the legendary Judy Garland. 9.

Diane Ladd and Laura Dern HBO/enlightenedgifs.tumblr.com Making movies is basically an average mother-daughter bonding experience for these two. They’ve appeared in a total of nine films together, including Wild at Heart, Citizen Ruth and Daddy and Them, and in the HBO show Enlightened. They even both earned Oscar nominations for their roles in 1991’s Rambling Rose – Laura for best actress and Diana for best supporting actress. 10. Melanie Griffith and Dakota Johnson in Crazy in Alabama Before she was makin’ mama proud in Fifty Shades of Grey, Dakota joined her mom on screen in 1999’s Crazy in Alabama. She and her sister played Melanie’s daughters in the film. 11. Jada Pinkett-Smith and Willow Smith in Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa Blythe Danner - 必应 Sign in Blythe Danner Blythe Katherine Danner (born February 3, 1943) is an American actress of film, television and stage. She is known for her role as Marilyn Truman, mother of Will, on the sitcom Will & Grace, and for co-starring opposite Robert De Niro in the three Meet the Parents franchise films.

She is the mother of actress Gwyneth Paltrow and director Jake Paltrow. In 1970 she won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for her performance in Butterflies Are Free. She won two Primetime Emmy Awards for Best Supporting Actress in ... (展开) a Drama for her role as Izzy Huffstodt on Huff. Her other film work includes roles in 1776 (1972), The Great Santini (1979), Mr. and Mrs. Bridge (1990), The Prince of Tides (1991), Husbands and Wives (1992), and I'll See You in My Dreams (2015). Blythe Danner Early life Danner was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Katharine (née Kile 1909-2006) and Harry Earl Danner, a bank executive. She has a brother, opera singer/actor Harry Danner; a sister-in-law, performer-turned-director Dorothy (Dottie) Danner; and a half-brother, violin maker William Moennig.

Danner has Pennsylvania Dutch (German), and some English and Irish, ancestry; her maternal grandmother was a German immigrant, and one of her paternal great-grandmothers was born in Barbados. Danner graduated from George School, a Quaker high school located near Newtown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania in 1960. She began her Friends School experience in Kindergarten at Media-Providence Friends School, then known as Media Friends in Media, Pennsylvania.[citation needed] Blythe Danner Career A graduate of Bard College, Danner's first roles included the 1967 musical Mata Hari (closed out of town), and the 1968 off-Broadway production, Summertree. Her early Broadway appearances included roles in Cyrano de Bergerac (1968) and The Miser (1969). She won a Best Supporting Actress Tony playing a free-spirited divorcee in Butterflies Are Free (1969). In 1972, Danner portrayed Martha Jefferson opposite Ken Howard's Thomas Jefferson in the movie version of 1776.

That same year, she played a wife whose husband has been unfaithful opposite Peter Falk and John Cassavetes in the Columbo episode "Etude in Black". Her earliest starring film role was opposite Alan Alda in To Kill a Clown (1972). Danner appeared in the episode of M*A*S*H entitled "The More I See You", playing the love interest of Alda's character Hawkeye Pierce. She played lawyer Amanda Bonner in television's Adam's Rib, also opposite Ken Howard as Adam Bonner. She played Zelda Fitzgerald in F. Scott Fitzgerald and 'The Last of the Belles' (1974). She was the eponymous heroine in the film Lovin' Molly (1974) (directed by Sidney Lumet). She appeared in Futureworld, playing Tracy Ballard with co-star Peter Fonda (1976). In the 1982 TV movie Inside the Third Reich, she played the wife of Albert Speer. In the film version of Neil Simon's semiautobiographical play Brighton Beach Memoirs (1986), she portrayed a middle-aged Jewish mother.

She has appeared in two films based on the novels of Pat Conroy, The Great Santini (1979) and The Prince of Tides (1991), as well as two television movies adapted from books by Anne Tyler, Saint Maybe and Back When We Were Grownups, both for the Hallmark Hall of Fame. Danner appeared opposite Robert De Niro in the 2000 comedy hit Meet the Parents, and its sequels, Meet the Fockers and Little Fockers. From 2001 to 2006, she regularly appeared on Will & Grace as Will Truman's mother Marilyn. From 2004 to 2006, she starred in the TV series Huff. In 2005, she was nominated for three Emmy Awards: for her work on Will & Grace, Huff, and Back When We Were Grownups. Emmy host Ellen DeGeneres poked fun at Danner during the awards ceremony, saying that Danner should not be nervous because she was almost certain to win at least one Emmy, which she did, for Huff. In July 2006, she won a second consecutive Emmy award for Huff.

For 25 years, she has been a regular performer at the Williamstown Summer Theater Festival, where she also serves on the Board of Directors. In 2006, Danner was awarded an inaugural Katharine Hepburn Medal by Bryn Mawr College's Katharine Houghton Hepburn Center. In 2015, Danner was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame. Blythe Danner Health care activism After the death of her husband Bruce Paltrow from oral cancer, she became involved with the Oral Cancer Foundation, a national 501(c)3 nonprofit charity. In 2005, she filmed a public service announcement that played on TV stations around the country about the risks associated with oral cancer, and through that shared the personal pain associated with the loss of her husband publicly to further awareness of the disease and the need for early detection. She continues to donate her time to the foundation, and has appeared on morning talk shows, and has done interviews in high profile magazines such as People to further public awareness of the disease and its risk factors.

Through The Bruce Paltrow Oral Cancer Fund, administered by the Oral Cancer Foundation, she continues to raise awareness and funding for oral cancer issues, particularly those involving communities in which disparities in health care exist. She appeared in commercials for Prolia, a brand of denosumab for injection.

The Glass Menagerie (1965) (Boston) The Service of Joseph Axminster (1965–1966) (Boston) The Way Out of the Way In (1965–1966) (Boston) The Knack (1965–1966) (Boston) The Infantry (1966) (Off-Broadway) A Midsummer Night's Dream (1967) (Providence, Rhode Island) Three Sisters (1967) (Providence) Mata Hari (1967) (Washington DC, closed out of town before Broadway opening) Summertree (1968) (Off-Broadway) Cyrano de Bergerac (April 25 – June 8, 1968) (Broadway) Up Eden (1968) (Off-Broadway) Lovers (July 25 – November 30, 1968) (Broadway) (standby for Fionnuala Flanagan) Someone's Comin' Hungry (1969) (Off-Broadway) The Miser (May 8 – June 2

1, 1969) (Broadway) Butterflies Are Free (October 21, 1969 – July 2, 1972) (Broadway) Major Barbara (1971) (Los Angeles) Twelfth Night (March 2 – April 8, 1972) (Broadway) The Seagull (1974) (Williamstown Theatre Festival) Ring Round the Moon (1975) (Williamstown Theatre Festival) The New York Idea (1977) (Brooklyn Academy of Music) Children of the Sun (1979) (Williamstown Theatre Festival) Betrayal (January 5 – May 31, 1980) (Broadway) The Philadelphia Story (November 14, 1980 – January 4, 1981) (Broadway) Blithe Spirit (March 31 – June 28, 1987) (Broadway) A Streetcar Named Desire (March 20 – May 22, 1988) (Broadway) Much Ado About Nothing (1988) (New

 York Shakespeare Festival) Love Letters (1989) (Off-Broadway) Picnic (1991) (Williamstown Theatre Festival) The Seagull (1994) (Williamstown Theatre Festival) Sylvia (1995) (Off-Broadway) The Deep Blue Sea (March 26 – May 10, 1998) (Broadway) Ancestral Voices (1999) (staged reading) (Off-Broadway) Tonight (2000) (Williamstown Theatre Festival) Follies (April 5 – July 14, 2001) (Broadway) Little Murders (2001) (staged reading) (Off-Broadway) Carousel (2002) (concert performance) (Carnegie Hall) The Chekhov Cycle (2002) (Williamstown Theatre Festival) All About Eve (2003) (staged reading) (Los Angeles) Nice Work If You Can Get It (2012-2013) (Broadway) The Country House (2014) (Broadway) ^ Social Security Death Indexaccess

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Question: In the 2003 film 'Sylvia', Blythe Danner played 'Aurelia Plath', the mother of the title character. Who is her daughter who played 'Sylvia' in the film?
Answer: GWYNETH PALTROW